Branko Hadzinikitovic

Branko Hadzinikitovic was born in 1949 in Visegrad. He completed his studies at the School of Applied Arts and Pedagogical Academy in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Hadzinikitovic is a member of the Association of Visual Artists of Serbia (ULUS), a member of the Association of Visual and Applied Artists of Republic of Srpska (ULIPURS) and a member of Art fraternities of the Dobrun, Krka and Rmanj monasteries. He is the founder of Art Colony in Visegrad 1993, as wellas founder of International Art Colony in Visegrad established in 1996. Hadzinikitovic is the initiator of the founding of the City Gallery in Visegrad and one of the founders of about ten art colonies in Republic of Srpska, Serbia and Montenegro. Since 1968 he participated in more than a hundred art colonies, and he undertook trip studies to Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Greece and Israel.Hadzinikitovic took a pilgrimage to Sveta Gora and cradle of Serbian culture - Hilandar monastery - twenty times, and to Jerusalem in 2005 and 2006.